Making It Across the Bridge
God said:
When you are overwhelmed with life as it appears to you, I ask you: “Who is overwhelmed? Is life the Doer in this case? Or, do you think I am the Doer Who insists that you be overwhelmed?” It seems to be that he or she who is overwhelmed is the overwhelmer.
Your arms are full. Your head is full of responsibility. Granted, the load you carry is too much for you. If you were carrying lumber and couldn’t carry a thousand pounds across a bridge, you would lessen the burden you are carrying. You would leave some and go back to make a second trip of it. On a simple physical level, solutions are easier for you. You would not demand yourself to carry too much all at once. You would not feel that you are irresponsible to lay down your burden for a while and find another way to handle it.
The weight you carry now is a story you have told yourself. You box yourself in. On the psychological level, you may have a great sense of not only responsibility that belongs to you but also a great sense of urgency. In addition, you have imposed urgency upon yourself. You are, indeed, responsible for your sense of urgency. Urgency is the frosting on the cake of your overwhelm. Urgency is overwhelming and not really the responsibility itself.
How do your sense of urgency and your processing it help you? Not at all!
Urgency and overwhelm are your way of crying out: “Woe is me. All this is too much for me. I cannot do all this.”
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